P: Saving copy not saving over jpg file

Report · Oct 23, 2019

working on Catalina OS. saving file extension works now but does not save over jpg when saving it creates a copy which is annoying and time consuming to fix

Report · May 20, 2020

If you can just accept that your needs as an established customer don't matter as much as enticing new monthly conscripts, everything will be exactly as they feel it should be.

Report · May 20, 2020

I found a solution for saving Tiff files from layered PSD files: In the Save As dialog, after you choose TIF from the drop down, DON'T uncheck the Layers box. Instead, just click SAVE and when the TIFF OPTIONS box appears, select Discard Layers and Save a Copy from the Layer Compression section. This will give you a flat TIFF file with no "Copy" added.

Report · May 20, 2020

Forgot to add that this will successfully overwrite a previous TIFF file of the same name.

Report · May 26, 2020

Ok I think I figure out a fix for this, if someone could please try it on their end and confirm. The issue that I can see is that on the Save As screen, the "Save as Copy" is checked, and there is no way to uncheck.

Quit Photoshop
Go to System Preferences
Click on "Security & Privacy"
Click the "Privacy" tab
If the little padlock in the bottom left corner is checked, click it to unlock it and enter your user password.
On the left side, click "Full Disk Access"
Click the + button
Add Adobe Photoshop
Click the lock again to make changes
Start up Photoshop, open a file, and click "Save As"
The "Save As Copy" should now be able to be unchecked.
Uncheck, and save.

Even if I remove photoshop from the Full Disk Access list, the problem remains to be fixed for me, so I can't re-duplicate the issue to verify. Let me know if it works for you!

Report · May 26, 2020

I'm happy this seems to work for you, but this doesn't fix the issue for me. When saving a multi-layered PSD as a flat jpg, the "save a copy" is required to be checked, that's photoshops way of reminding you that the jpg won't have layers. And anytime the "save a copy" checkbox is checked, photoshop now appends "copy" to the filename. (Unless the filename already has a "copy" at the end, in which case ==>This is new ==> photoshop now has a secondary dialog box asking if you are sure you want to overwrite your file. But again, only if you have appended the word "copy" to your filename.

At this point I'm convinced they will never fix this behavior because they have gone out of their way to make it work differently than it used to.

You can still overwrite flat files, but anything with layers requires copies. Our only hope now is for one of us to become a CEO at Adobe and fire the person(s) responsible for this decision.

Report · May 26, 2020

Same stupid issue. Change it back Adobe.

Report · May 27, 2020

It worked for me, I had to delete photoshop from full disk access and re-add it. THANK YOU!

Report · May 27, 2020

Good fix, Chris. Still exceedingly shameful Adobe didn't lift a finger to help MacOS users.

Report · May 27, 2020

Unfortunately, this does not fix the issue for me either. (I've also deleted Photoshop and re-added as per Kaleb's suggesstion with no luck).

Report · May 27, 2020

Sorry, I spoke too soon..... It does not work. I will continue to use my method of flatten image save as which is the only solution that works for me.

Report · May 27, 2020

Yeah, my dumb heinie spoke too soon as well. I forgot the Catch-22 of the "layer" trap.

Report · May 27, 2020

This is my workaround. 1st Save your layered file, 2nd Flatten image (from layer panel drop-down menu), 3rd File Save As the file to the file name you want to replace. Once you done these 3 steps your opened file is now the replaced file. No need to find it in your folder to open. TRY A TEST FILE first so you get the hang of it. It works perfectly for me.

Report · Jun 01, 2020

Hi, I recently was forced to update and do this as well. (Lost my job due to the pandemic had to give them back the laptop, and OS wouldn't support the older version of CS I had on my personal laptop). I'm trying to help out a buddy and my god it's just name1.jpeg, name2.jpeg with every minuscule change. Did we get any work arounds?! I'm going insane that the files I drag into other CS apps aren't updating anymore because there's no way to override.

Report · Jun 01, 2020

it will save over .psd files. Can't save over tif files... I dont know how long this will work but i thought that i would share my findings.

Report · Jun 01, 2020

it will save over .psd files. Can't save over tif files... I dont know how long this will work but i thought that i would share my findings.

Report · Jun 04, 2020

Just wanted to confirm this is happening to me as well, whenever I'm trying to replace an existing JPEG file. Found out about it when I accidentally submitted two JPEGs to a client.

I'm using the latest version of Catalina and Photoshop.

Report · Jun 04, 2020

I found a work around. It is very annoying, and got no help from an absolutely WORTHLESS 40 minutes with adobe support (where they asked me if I tried not doing save as but just save, and I was like...you idiot that won't make a jpeg from a psd. But I digress.)

Work around:
I set my quick export from png to jpeg, and that allows you to overwrite. It's the only way I could do it.
So command k > export. Select jpeg instead of png and then set the quality to 100. And that has worked for now.

Report · Jun 04, 2020

That does seem to work, thanks Cezz! This will help until a proper fix for the bug

Report · Jun 04, 2020

NP DB.

Report · Jun 09, 2020

Thanks Leslie! Worked for me too. Hopefully it stays fixed.

Report · Jun 10, 2020

Same here with Tif, i am currently testing different Photoshop versions on my MAcPRo 2019 with Catalina. This happens with Version 20.0.9.
But I can't overwrite pictures either. Even if Photoshop suggests it and has full access to all folders in the security settings, just save a new file with a copy on the back and don't overwrite it even it asks to do so. This is a real problem because if you don't pay attention it can happen that you give the "old" picture by mistake and later on the newer one is overlooked with "copy" on your full desktop.
So, I know this is not all Photoshop – it is this over secured Catalina Os. But why are other apps able to overwrite files?
Updating to latest Version maybe helps but... later versions still freeze on my new Mac Pro (made a thread already) after an hour.
I'm using Photoshop since version 2 but now its getting more worse every update in my opinion.

Report · Jun 10, 2020

Scratch that. Still broken and more annoying than ever.

Report · Jun 10, 2020

Hi, I found a fix. If you set your export, command +k > export to jpeg from png. Set the quality to 100. And then when you go to quick export, it overwrites the file. It took me a while to stop hitting the shortcut for save as, but that appears to be working for me.

Report · Jun 11, 2020

I'm having the same issue. I use Photoshop a lot to create full screen graphics that get used in Premiere. It used to be if I needed to change a word or something, I would do "File-Save As-Select the file name and format" and it would replace the file on my drive and it would replace my file in Premiere. But if every file save as now only creates a copy, unfortunately my current project I need to fix quite a few files and then I'm going to end up doubles the amount of files on my drive and need to do "replace footage" in Premiere. This issue is new to me. Tried the "Full Disk Access" workaround and nada. Not sure why it (Photoshop) won't allow you to uncheck "Save as copy" option.
I should mention that I use PNG format.

Report · Jun 14, 2020

A few other people have mentioned this, but I finally did it this week and everything "works as expected... kinda" for me now. (This won't help if you're working with TIFF images.)

My solution: Go to File -> Export -> Export Preferences...
Set the export pref to whatever you normally would use. For me, I set it to JPG with a quality of 10.
Go to Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts...
Remove they keyboard shortcut for Save As... and map Shift+Command+S to the Quick Export option.

YMMV, but this has helped me. Thank you to those who have mentioned it on various posts.